Boston. March 23, 1833. [3]pp., with integral address leaf, on a folded folio sheet. Previously folded, with old separations along folds expertly repaired with no loss of text. A few very small edge chips. Paper restored where it had been torn away by breaking of seal. Light tanning, slight discoloration... More

New York. 1926. 349pp. Mezzotint portrait by Cruikshank. Original cloth. Bookplate removed from front pastedown, else clean and very good. This is one of forty-two special large paper copies with a 19th-century mezzotint portrait of Audubon by Cruikshank inserted as the frontispiece. The most convenient sampler of Audubon's writing, combining... More

London. 1926. 349pp. Portrait. Cloth. Slight shelf wear. Bookplate to verso of front free endpaper. Very good. The most convenient sampler of Audubon's writing, combining episodes from his various writings, with many scenes set in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.More

New York. 1926. 349pp. Portrait. Cloth. Slightest shelf wear. Very good. The most convenient sampler of Audubon's writing, combining episodes from his various writings, with many scenes set in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.More

Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1831-1835. Various paginations. Modern three-quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light shelf wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Some unobtrusive ink underlining on titlepage. Minor foxing and age-toning. Very good. These extracts from ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY pull together in one volume all sixty of the short travel... More

London: R. Havell, 1836. Handcolored engraving with aquatint and etching, 26 x 39 1/4 inches. Paper watermarked: "J. Whatman / 1836." Fine. A fine image contrasting the indolence of the two drakes (one in summer and one in winter plumage) as they bask contentedly on the rocks, with the industry... More

London. 1829. Double elephant folio print, framed. Near fine condition. Audubon's depiction of the Mississippi Kite appeared in 1829 as plate 117 in THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. This plate aroused considerable debate at the time, because many natural historians were quick to note the similarity between the lower of the... More

Ardsley. 1979. 26pp. Facsimiles. Frontis. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Near fine. From an edition limited to 400 copies, signed by the editor, Michael Zinman. This volume presents, for the first time, two widely differing texts by the famous naturalist.More

Edinburgh. 1831-1839. Five volumes. A few in-text illustrations. Half title in each volume. Large, thick octavos. Modern buckram, printed paper labels. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Some light foxing, primarily to first and last few leaves. Tear in half title of second volume, repaired with tape... More

London: R. Havell, 1834. Handcolored engraving with aquatint and etching by R. Havell. Watermarked: "J. Whatman/1834." Sheet size: 25 3/8 x 38 1/2 inches. From the first edition of THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. One of Audubon's greatest images: against a background of western prairie land, a small incident of the... More

New York. 1993. ix,302,[1]pp. Illustrated mostly in color. Folio. Softcover. Fine. A beautifully illustrated volume based on the original Audubon bird watercolors in the collection of the New- York Historical Society.More

[American. n.d., ca. 1850]. Fifteen watercolors total, heightened with gum arabic, ranging in size from 2 x 2 inches, to 7 x 6 inches. The illustrations are bordered either by lace or gilt and affixed to colored paper, or are done on a sheet with a lithographic border. Interleaved with... More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1968. Two volumes. [2],422,3-78; [2],423-848,79-182pp. Half titles. Oblong folios. Original green cloth, gilt- lettered covers and spines. Second volume with minor wear and staining to cloth. Bright and clean. Near fine. A substantial work of ornithological and arboreal art. The explanatory text offers a brief..... More

Philadelphia. 1961. 319pp. Original green cloth with decorative gilt and stamping. In dust jacket. Dust jacket bumped and torn, else very good. A biography of Alexander Wilson, considered to be the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon.More

Washington. 1874. xi,791pp. Modern three quarter calf and marbled boards. Neat bookplate. Small ownership stamp in bottom margin of titlepage. Clean and very good. Extensive text descriptions of birds of the Missouri region. Basic reference by the noted historian and ornithologist.More